一个七月的下午,在华盛顿特区的市中心,一只赤蛱蝶落在了作者的肩头。他带着蝴蝶去照相馆拍了合照,一起去餐厅吃饭,蝴蝶在他肩膀上停留了整整30分钟之久。第二天回到家里,他发现这只蝴蝶又回来了!自此之后,不时有赤蛱蝶来拜访他,在岳母的生日会上,在女儿出嫁前夕,在屋顶,在门前的樱桃树下……他认为蝴蝶与自己建立起了某种联系,他是受到了蝴蝶的祝福。
Since 2007 I’ve developed a friendship with a butterfly. A particular kind of butterfly, that is: the red admiral (Vanessa atalanta). It is among the most common and most friendly butterflies. It’s not unusual to have one land on you.
But the first of these butterflies in my experience lit on my shoulder at an unusual location, for an unusually long time1. It was a July afternoon in downtown Washington, D.C. He stayed on me for 30 minutes, even while I stopped at a photo shop and asked to have my picture taken with him .
Then I took him into a steakhouse across the street and called my wife, Muriel. I told her that I planned to bring the butterfly home with me in a taxi.
The restaurant was filling up2 as 6 p.m. approached. The manager searched online for what butterflies liked to eat: overripe fruit3. But the insect ignored the strawberries she offered.
I knew almost nothing about butterflies. I had a few notions about monarchs and their migrations4. My new friend looked nothing like a monarch. He was mostly black with orange bands on his wings. His wingspan5was a little more than two inches.
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